Recent changes to feature-requests

Add support for Win7 64-bit

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:59:39 -0000

Need to decrypt PKI email on win7 64-bit

Allow encryption/signing of vm mail buffers with attachments

Jon Schewe — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:26:16 -0000

When a file is attached to a mail buffer in mail-mode with
vm-mime-attach-file the file isn't actually attached, instead
something is attached that is expanded on send to the
mime encoded version. This expansion is done by
vm-mime-encode-composition. It'd be really nice if
mailcrypt could call this before messages are signed or
encrypted so that they can properly be sent without the
user needing to manually do this.

attachments for signing

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:01:56 -0000

the inline method mailcrypt uses for signatures
is rather archaic and annoying for users unaware
of GPG signatures; would it be possible to move towards
the attachement-based method? e.g.:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

[content]

Content-Type: application/pgp-signature;
name="signature.asc"
Content-Description: Digital signature
Content-Disposition: inline

[signature of content]

multiple keyring support

Brian Warner — Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:40:58 -0000

I'm pondering how to improve multiple keyring support.
The main ideas:

remailer keys should go on their own ring, which is
only searched when we're rewriting for a remailer chain

it should be possible to make the user's private
keyring separate from their public one, so the private
keys are only searched during decrypt/sign operations.
This would make it easier to, say, keep the private key
on a removable floppy.

Keyfetching should allow the user to specify where the
key should be added. This requires better control on
the backend (e.g., I've never figured out how to make
gnupg do this the way I want it to).

-Brian

symmetric encryption

Brian Warner — Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:18:32 -0000

It would be nice if Mailcrypt had the ability to create
symmetrically-encrypted messages. It has the ability to
decrypt such messages, after all. At the moment you can
get it to just armor the message (no encryption) if you
give it an empty list of recipients.. perhaps it would
make more sense to use this case to ask for an
encryption passphrase.

Thanks to Tuyen Dinh for the suggestion.
-Brian

remailing to newsgroup

Brian Warner — Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:33:18 -0000

Split out from a previous bug report:

Also, I have a feature request. If the recipient
doesn't contain a "@" character, then its a news post.
I'd like to see Mailcrypt automagically change to:

::
Anon-Post-To: recipient

defcustom mc-default-scheme

Peter S Galbraith — Tue, 14 May 2002 15:25:13 -0000

After switching from PGP to GPG, I found mailcrypt no
longer worked, so I went searching for a variable to
set to tell it to use GPG instead and hacked in:

(setq mc-default-scheme 'mc-scheme-gpg)

I later found this in the docs:

(mc-setversion "2.6") ; for PGP 2.6 (default); also
"5.0" and "gpg"

It might be more user-friendly to use a defcustom for
mc-default-scheme and have an mailcrypt menubar entry
for "Customize mailcrypt".

Alternatively (or additionally), use a default of nil,
and if the user hasn't customized it by setting the
variable, then use 'executable-find' to search for the
pgp or gpg commands on the system.

Thanks,
Peter Galbraith <psg@debian.org>

choose backend by addresses

Michael Richardson — Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:48:57 -0000

Some people have not yet upgraded to GPG.
It would be nice if mailcrypt could pick PGP2 based
upon the
recipients. GPG is not (yet?) sufficiently PGP2
compatible to
use GPG to encrypt to them.